Posted by Dan in the MW on 8/25/2015, 10:24 am, in reply to "Larceny (1948)"67.173.28.64Edited by Dan in the MW on 8/25/2015, 10:25 am

"Larceny" has gotten favorable responses from festival audiences. Noir City has screened it in several cities.

I have always preferred "The Crooked Way" to "Somewhere in the Night." Both are good films, but John Payne's lower budget effort seems much more realistic than John Hodiak's grand opera version of an amnesia victim.

Of course, it helps that "The Crooked Way" is much more conventional and does not have a convoluted subplot involving Nazi riches smuggled into the USA. Hodiak seems anxious and hyperactive whereas Payne is more subtly depressed and withdrawn.